Maggie Walters

Maggie Walters (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 19, 2004)
• Label: Maggie Walters
• ASIN: B000CA77ZE
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #633,698 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Maggie Walters - A First-Class Talent!, October 15, 2007

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Douglas W. Peschka "Doug Peschka" (Olathe, KS USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Maggie Walters (Audio CD)

I first encountered Maggie Walters at MySpace.

There, I began to hear her music, and recognized a fine talent right away.

In a short time, Maggie arrived on the music scene in Austin, Texas, rounded up the best musicians in town, and made a great record - right out of the starting gate! This is a fine debut album that stands up alongside Austin's best.

Is the character in "Be Careful Love" is the same woman as
in "Fingerprints"? Either way, she is giving some very confident advice to her new suitor: "Don't go making all your plans, cause I'll just f*** 'em up," sung so delicately and so sweetly that you are completely disarmed, if not charmed, by the use of the f-word. If that is not enough, then she comes in with the knockout punch: "I probably won't remember you, but baby you'll remember me." Talk about a steel hand inside a velvet glove! [They used to say that about Margaret Thatcher when she was Britain's Prime Minister in the 1980's. But Maggie's beautiful voice doubles the velvet!]

With "Spin," Maggie goes after the media's News We Can't Use in a brilliant deconstruction of broadcast news. It's as sly and sexy as it is accurate. It should be noted here that this is the first song she wrote, beginning a string of songwriting driven by an activist desire to make a difference with her music. I somehow doubt this will be the last protest song we'll hear from this gifted young lady!

"The Other Spin," takes on a Memphis-Blues sound. Throw in funky support from "Scrappy" Jud Newcomb and Bukka Allen, and you have a Memphis-Blues riff that would make Elvis Presley himself stand up and take notice!

"Flash" is a fun romp thru rejection of the soulless "bling bling" of some rich dude who can "buy himself some brand new toys to keep him occupied" and challenges him to "show me what's inside." What's more - the melody stays with you!

Maggie's debut album is strong from start to finish, at once elegant and beautifully simple.

I listen to other new artists, and old ones, and I find myself feeling "They're great, but they are just not Maggie!"

Get to know Maggie Walters.
You're going to hear a lot more from her!

Stay tuned!